Title[Government exhibits at Grand Army Plaza Library]
SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CBPL 0251, CBPL 0248, CBPL 0249, CBPL 0250, CBPL 0242, CBPL 0243, CBPL 0252, CBPL 0246, CBPL 0247, CBPL 0244), some of which may also be described in this new record; Views of exhibits and displays relating to United States government at Central Library; 0242 (8 x 10 in.) shows library director Francis R. St. John and unidentified man standing before display case labeled "Foundation Stones of [Ameri]can Freedom"; 0243 (7 x 10 in.) shows display case with books, clippings, and photographs of airplanes; 0244 (8 x 10 in.) shows four men in suits (identified on verso as "United States Attorney J. Vincent Keogh, Harold J. Bailey, secretary of the Brooklyn Public Library's board of trustees, Federal Judge Robert A. Inch, and Henry J. Davenport, president of the board of trustees") standing before display case labeled "The Supreme Court: Last Word [of La]w"; 0245 (8 x 10 in.) shows two women (one in military uniform) standing before display labeled "Social Security"; 0246 (8 x 10 in.) shows man in overcoat examining books on display shelf labeled "Government Best Sellers"; 0247 (8 x 10 in.) shows soldier and older woman examing display case with photographs of soldiers and men in unform; 0248 (8 x 10 in.) shows entrance foyer of library with groups of people examining display cases at left and right; 0249 (8 x 10 in.) shows groups of people examining display cases on second floor balcony; 0250 (10 x 8 in.) shows ten women in uniform, perhaps WACs, standing on balcony with display cases labeled "Experts in the Making"; 0251 (8 x 10 in.) shows display case labeled "N.Y. State Emergency Food Commission"; 0252 (8 x 10 in.) shows group of people examining display case in foyer with image of United States Capitol building.
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from stamp on verso of 0244: Jun. 9, 1950; other images undated. Photographer's name ("Ralph De Sola") on typed label on verso of 0243; photographer's stamp ("Verna Photographers") on verso of 0244 and 0246; photographer's stamp ("Photo by the Hindles") on verso of 0249 and 0252; photographer's stamp ("Photo by Germaine") on verso of 0251.
SubjectBrooklyn Public Library. Central Library ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York ; Library exhibits -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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